Xaml Studio as part of CommunityToolkit

[listepo]

Hey @michael-hawker, I would like to thank you for a wonderful product as Xaml Studio. Very good product but not many people know about it. I want to propose to make it open source, which will allow it to be improved with the help of the community.

[michael-hawker]

Thanks @listepo! 🦙❤ XAML Studio is always in the back of my mind for sure. 🙂

It certainly is something I would like to do and have thought about. There are a lot of bits and bobs which overlap with how we work our Sample App in the Toolkit as well. So, I've been wanting to open source it as part of the .NET Foundation underneath our toolkit org to utilize as a base system for our other efforts in that area. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find out how to go through that process.

The app's code is pretty out-of-date at this point too, but I've been slowly poking at other components for the future. I've been currently trying to update it to the latest WinUI version and move over to their TabView component.

For now, most of my focus is on our new Toolkit Labs effort, which will eventually want to consume some of those types of experiences as well from XAML Studio.

Related to this issue as well here: michael-hawker/XmlSyntaxVisualizerUWP#1

That project is actually the parsing playground I've been trying to update for use in XAML Studio, specifically this issue: michael-hawker/XmlSyntaxVisualizerUWP#4.

That and things like the Monaco Editor Wrapper which needs to be updated to use WebView2 are things that drive a lot of what makes XAML Studio work and are open source already or opportunities to collaborate on. The next phase for Monaco is to generate a .NET Standard library of the interfaces and implementation stubs, and try and generate projections for the WebView hooks for WebView2 and WebView together I think. But that's a lot of work... 😋

[listepo]

I think XAML Studio + Uno it would be grate base for Storybook alternative for local development and Codepen alternative for cloud. I wonder what you think of it. And @jeromelaban too